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Overreaction to sarcasm.

It worked for me when I typed an i to get Vimium into its insert mode. Although that is getting a little ridiculous.

Didn't get any email, found out by logging in to check some stats. This story ended on a low key.

"War on boys and brains" and "locked up" are rather florid characterizations of the ADHD condition and its treatments.

1. Get on IRC, people hang out there all day waiting to help people for free.

2. Here's a volunteer hotline to call for help: http://rails.pockethotline.com/

I wonder if that's the same Gerald Weinberg I'm thinking of-(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Weinberg). I've read a few of his books. I am inclined to think 'yes'.

This looks great. When will you shut up and start taking my money? I'm worried of getting too attached, that this beautiful piece of work looks like it has no business model.

It's informal and cute, here's a close-up of that section: http://imgur.com/KFlpmES

If you open the Illustrator document, there's an illustration in the bottom right corner that says "not for commercial use".

Hardcore. This doesn't just solve a use case for cooking apps, there are a million business niches using WordPress. Appifier is a really powerful idea.

There are lots of jobs out there that will pay you to relocate. Consider making this a focus of your job search.

A strong defense which I found convincing, especially because the effort required to disprove it is now more significant than "Any of you guys ever hear of this Jeff Nelson? Me neither." At the time (with zero information) I thought that on balance he was likely to be inflating his claims.

Also, because I was annoyed at all the unfunny, low-effort jokes posted in the comments on the linked G+ page, which felt like piling-on, I confess that I'm pleased at the turnabout. Good twist.

pri's not a constructor in this language's terms, it's just a visibility operator. The language wants you to be able to use code in your class member assignment statements; if that means it has to generate a constructor to make it happen, it will. Or maybe it just wants you to start coding without fussing with boilerplate.

And the @str title=null line above the class seems very odd.

This is great because you can indent code under it that's relevant to it, that would normally end up cluttering your function's narrative up with housekeeping for variables.

This is a much more pleasant way to deal with PHP. Check out the documentation, it is outstanding. http://code.google.com/p/php-snow/wiki/Class

How do I build or buy it?

English has homonyms too. Besides, the same word is also used to mean "worshipper".

Being able to control your impulses and operate with some level of civilized executive function makes your identity worth stealing, because you're likely to have good credit. Petty thieves and other criminal morons are unlikely to have an identity worth stealing.

John Lott is kind of a flake with several credibility problems: allegations of academic fraud in his studies and of not actually conducting a survey he claimed to have done, proven allegations of sockpuppeting ("Mary Rosh"), lack of corroboration of his claims by any other academics...

More Guns Less Crime is a snappy title, but mostly seems like a work of ideological pro-firearm propaganda in light of its author's many documented ethical issues.

Damn, the stuff about how to treat and think about other people in Part III is solid gold. It’s really speaking to me.

http://memagazine.asme.org/Articles/2010/December/Unwritten_...

It's not about the complexity of Rails, it's about helping a learner get comfortable at their own speed, outside of the usual channels of support. It's about creating something that will unexpectedly delight people. No one expects free phone-based tech support for an open-source project.

This is ridiculously awesome. I think your reply did not contribute much of use to the conversation, and I think that's why you got downvoted (wasn't me, I can't downvote).

I just tried the demo Xcode project. The sample app builds in a jiffy, and performance is smooth and fluid.

I didn’t know there were that many airports in the world!

I expect the binary-only version will account for most of your sales, since it costs 75% less. Sales of the source version might depend on whether that version also includes the right to modify it and redistribute your custom version in your own apps, or is just a look-but-don’t-touch license. You may laugh, but people do try to sell that. Which is it?

This looks great, what a good idea! I’ve often found too many pins on iOS maps annoying to deal with (most recently in the app "Eat Street"). I’ll definitely keep Superpin in mind for any future map-based iOS projects.

I think the price is very fair.

First of all, the headline is wrong. "China" has proposed no such thing as that. One private Chinese banker has proposed it.

China selling all its dollars at once would depress the dollar significantly. That’s why China won’t do any such thing. It would be pointlessly wasteful to set their own money on fire. Storing $3 trillion IOUs in a vault is already a terrible way to use money. It would be better for that money to be in the Chinese economy.

If China starts spending more of its trade surplus on helping people at home instead of stockpiling useless green pieces of paper, all the better. This will have an expansionary effect on the United States, since that’s where the dollars will eventually be spent, and they’re not doing anyone any good being frozen in China’s vault.

You’re proposing that the author is Arab? Hardly likely.

No, you’re just arguing with me about the difference between a name and a mistaken transliteration. Their parents named them an Arabic name. There is no such Arabic name as Achmed. Sorry. Learn my language first, and you can tell me what is and isn’t a name in it.

I retract that response. It was clouded by passion.

This is making less and less sense. The insight that labels are not the same thing as the thing, itself is a pretty thin one when you water it down like that. You’re taking a truth and turning it into a nihilistic premise that no label is meaningful, just because it’s a label.

If that’s the case, programming must be a hellish experience for you, since it mostly consists of labeling things well.

Exactly, thank you. I was starting to lose patience with all the esoteric non-arguments.

Racism is a dangerous toy to play with. Just because you’re a good person who didn’t become a racist after reading that doesn’t mean it’s a mistake to cry foul against racist caricature. The caricature is still wrong. It communicated nothing but the writer’s lazy prejudice.

The (general, de-stupidified) point being made by the caricaturist can be correct, and the racist caricature foul and despicable...all at the same time!

It sounds like a study of nothing. It sounds like a question nobody cares about, but that could easily be misused in the service of racism. I take very strong exception to the idea that there’s nothing wrong with this kind of passive-aggressive hate speech, and that I only think there is something wrong with it because (you think) I grew up in America instead of that part of the world. I’ll give you a clue: in the USA, I’ve actually heard the phrase "I ain’t Iranian" from a redneck, who was trying in his inarticulate bigoted way to convey to me that he wasn’t going to cheat me. Reading this bug report was like having to listen to an embarrassing and pathetic fool of a racist relative going on and on. I would think this racist fool was pathetic and embarrassing for saying things like that no matter where I grew up.

There are lots of reasons why someone might call himself or herself a hyphenated American. I called myself an Arab-American to establish bona fides for my confident statement that Achmed is not a name, nothing more. You don’t actually know anything about me because I said I’m an Arab-American. That might mean I’m culturally American, culturally Arab, some mix of varying degrees of the two, or even fully both. I may simultaneously consider myself fully Arab and better at being American than most 10th-generation Americans. Who are you to say different?

What is the point, anyway? So what if my opinion of this speech is determined by where I grew up? The tasteless racist caricature I’m criticizing is what it is and would be that whether I even existed or not.

That’s not a variant of Ahmad the name, it’s an eccentric variant transliteration of it. Transliterating that particular Arabic sound to "ch" evokes a "k" sound, and that’s how ignoramuses pronounce it, "Akmed". There is no such Arabic name. The fact that a few people named Ahmad have been mistransliterated as Achmed in no way means that it’s a legitimate variant transliteration. It is simply wrong, and your Wikipedia link is just documenting instances of a mistake. The "ch" or "kh" diphthong is properly and correctly used only when transliterating the Arabic letter خ. The name Ahmad only contains the letter ح, which has a completely different sound.